Itâ€™s A Multi-Browser World

Looks like Internet Explorer is in terminal decline: Microsoft keeps
bringing out new versions, but existing users canâ€™t be bothered upgrading,
it seems they would rather switch
<http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/may-browser-market-share-microsoft-and-mozillas-continuing-chrome-conundrum.ars>.
Chrome is the fastest-growing, and will probably equal Firefox at some
point. Will it pass it? Who knows...

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On 7/06/2011 7:00 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Looks like Internet Explorer is in terminal decline: Microsoft keeps
> bringing out new versions, but existing users canâ€™t be bothered upgrading,
> it seems they would rather switch
> <http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/may-browser-market-share-microsoft-and-mozillas-continuing-chrome-conundrum.ars>.
> Chrome is the fastest-growing, and will probably equal Firefox at some
> point. Will it pass it? Who knows...

9 is shit. 8 is ok.

9 cant even render text without making it look like it was rendered
small and then zoomed up in size, fuzzy edges make it very painful to
use. Like a mac almost. Guess they are copying that.

No, its on standard and cleartype etc is off everywhere. Firefox can
deliver nice non antialiased or scaled fonts with crisp sharp edges. IE
8 can do it, IE 9 fails at it. Many threads everywhere about it being a
cockup by MS. Something to do with their fancy new hardware rendering
engine etc.

On 10/06/2011 8:02 p.m., Ralph Fox wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:58:51 +1200, in message<isq91b$r05$>
> Richard wrote:
>
>> On 9/06/2011 6:39 a.m., Ralph Fox wrote:
>>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:03:39 +1200, in message<isnvfr$lf0$>
>>> Richard wrote:
>>>> On 7/06/2011 7:00 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [...] Internet Explorer [...]
>>>>
>>>> 9 is shit. 8 is ok.
>>>>
>>>> 9 cant even render text without making it look like it was rendered
>>>> small and then zoomed up in size, fuzzy edges make it very painful to
>>>> use. Like a mac almost. Guess they are copying that.
>>>>
>>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
>>>
>>>
>>> Q. Are your Win 7 display settings set to something other than
>>> "Smaller - 100% (default)" ?
>>>
>>> (That is, something other than 96dpi?)
>>
>> No, its on standard and cleartype etc is off everywhere. Firefox can
>> deliver nice non antialiased or scaled fonts with crisp sharp edges. IE
>> 8 can do it, IE 9 fails at it. Many threads everywhere about it being a
>> cockup by MS. Something to do with their fancy new hardware rendering
>> engine etc.
>
>
> I have seen the problem you describe in parts of some applications,
> when the Win7 display settings were bigger than 100% (more than 96dpi).
>
> I had speculated that it was doing the rendering as if WPF "relative pixels"
> (1/96 inch) were physical pixels, then zooming to the actual screen resolution.
>
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511441.aspx#R>

Nah, I really dont see the point in that control since it only has
options to make things bigger. With the dumbing down of screens I could
have used it going down to 75% or perhaps 66% when borrowing a computer
with this abortion of a 1600x900 screen on it.

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